[Barrin92]

and not just new media either. They also sold about a million BBC Micros. In the early 80s most British schools had one. The British public system has produced a lot of pretty cool tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

[darreninthenet]

Yup I grew up with one of those, my dad got some bonus at work and bought a BBC Micro B (with a 5.25" floppy drive, gasp!) when I was 7 and it was my first encounter with a computer... and then he got the (original) Elite game and I was hooked on computers ever since

[lttlrck]

We also got a model B when my dad got a bonus (he was away for weeks during the miners' strike of '84) but we had a Radio Shack tape recorder [1] - not a floppy drive!

Some years later we went to a store to buy a floppy drive but I ended up with an Atari ST instead. For not a lot more money...

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/57/59/b15759f5425af9f2f650...